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If you are in that part of the world I highly reccomend Transylvania.
a region of Romania. It is the real Romania because so much of
Romania has been added onto and chopped out in various European wars. Transylvania has Lots of wild scenery, great European food, fabulous architecture. Castles, palaces, an
Orthodox chirch on every corner.

Bucharest is crap, spend as little time there as possible, which is not to say there are not things to see there because there are some very special things. But it is basically ugly, the communists screwed it over.

God, I loved Romania!

I am trying to get excited about going to Morroco, one of the places on my top ten list. But
I am getting bogged down by it being in sand country. I do not wish to see the Sahara desert and ride a camel.is there enough architecture to hold my interest? I dont know.

Now I am remembering Ma and Pa Kettle in Bucharesti (i.e. mr and mrs Iris Lily.) Sometimes we are so stupid!

For some reason,we refused to take a cab to the only big touristy place worth seeing in Bucharesti (of course, this is my opinion only!) and we walked for hours, I mean at least 4 hours, without getting there. Because we are cheap and also stupid. I blame some of this on DH who was our navigator.

But I will say, we saw a lot of the city, so there’s that.

The next day we used a cab to get to our destination which was The Village Museum, a most awesome outdoor multi-acre park that had 100 very small old farm houses, brought in from the countryside, each one a different style of architecture reflecting its region.

It reminds me of cruises where some people don’t want to pay for tours at the destination. You are there such a short time that it is foolish to try and see stuff on your own. A regular trip is different since you have time to reverse your mistake.

We used to be cheap and stupid. I remember feeling cheated by a three wheeled taxi driver in Delhi and got out to walk. We were actually talking about a dollar or two. Tour guy told us this would happen. Foreigners are charged more BUT in dollars it really can be pennies.